Times Are Exciring.

       The hi-tech world is replacing the manufacturing world. That's how the story is told. And as workers are replaced by mechanization and cheaper labor elsewhere, those out of work laborers should be retrained to be hi-tech successes. And all that is good news for those who are actually able to get that training in fields where they're capable of handling the languages and complexities of those hi-tech positions. But how do they pay for the training?
       But what about the folks who can't handle the training or the complexities? And what about the graduates of that training who still can't find jobs? For people who have spent their lives working with their hands to suddenly be told they must learn to work with their heads on complicated, computerized robotics, it can easily be beyond their abilities.
       So what's next for these folks. Their children may have no problem working with computers and robots, but what of this older generation? Is this a discardable generation with exceptions here and there? Is there no place in this America for these relics of a bygone era? Or must they fight back with below minimum wage jobs just to put food on the table.
       What is the responsibility of government toward these folks? What is the responsibility of the corporations toward these folks, if any? It's good that society is able to move on into a bright new future for our youth and our brightest members, but do we, can we, just leave the relics to waste away? There will never be sufficient need for broom pushers to fill the gap with low-skilled jobs gone. America should never turn it's back on the people who helped to make it great.
       Deregulation has allowed the corporate world to turn it's back on labor, but now the curtain has been swept aside. We can begin to see the results of all that deregulation, in terms of human suffering. For too many there is no bright future.